"A system that rewards effort and innovation" can't be buzzwords for imbalance-get

[Peregrine]

such constructive thoughts can be gathered together into a nice digestible chunk for Bayohne to pass along to the battle team.

How it should be done should be left up to the developers, who know what they have planned. What needs done can absolutely be said. How it should be done is speculative.

Reward diversity.
Block same-job stacking synergy.
Eliminate cliche challenge mechanisms that result in predictable advantages of the same jobs.
Prevent ranged jobs dominating endgame.
Eliminate job stigmas before they occur.
Do not allow imbalance to snowball.

How? Depends on what you have planned. Regardless, those things need exquisite attention to detail otherwise you have that guy up there, telling everyone to go level archer if they want to be "useful" and "guaranteed."

Same argument that guy makes is the same argument that kept thief off the roster for years. Why invite thief when the archer and warrior are guaranteed sp per hour. He's an apologist for the broken system, and a patron of it.

And as for that patron of the "guaranteed"...Meleer since the beginning of XI, son. You may have given up and sold out. I didn't.

You be the first to level bard though. I'm sure it'll help my meleer out, but I'm not going to treat you any differently than the summoner.